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Yesterday we visited Sainsbury’s HQ to celebrate this year’s Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards. Though Dave Pigeon didn’t win, I was thrilled beyond belief that Dave Pigeon had been shortlisted amongst twelve other incredible books.

Huge congratulations to all the winners and to Team Sainsbury’s for hosting such a smashing afternoon celebrating all things children’s books.

 Signing books at Faber HQ

A pre-awards catch up with our lovely agent Felicity Trew

This year’s shortlist

Sheena and I not at all ungracious in the face of losing to the mighty Alex T Smith and the gorgeous Claude

AHHH! It’s Super Saturday here at Dave Pigeon HQ because our feathery heroes Dave and Skipper have made it on to the pigeontastic North Somerset Teachers’ Book Award shortlist in the Read Aloud category. I’m both shocked and delighted in equal measures.

What a week for Dave Pigeon!

I’m delighted with this latest review for Dave Pigeon from An Awfully Big Blog Adventure. Huge thanks to author Tamsin Cooke for taking the time to review Dave.

It’s an absolute honour to see Dave Pigeon on this wonderful list of books for reluctant readers. Thank you to The Huffington Post!

Flumping feathers! Dave Pigeon has been shortlisted for the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards. I’m absolutely thrilled to see Dave in the mix with eleven other incredible books this year.

Hurrah for Dave!

Over the last two days, CBBC, with the help of the Library of Birmingham, hosted a spectacular festival to celebrate the love of reading. Sheena and I were invited to bring Dave Pigeon along to join in the celebrations.

We were in amongst many brilliant authors and illustrators who came together to talk about how much we loved writing, illustrating and story telling. And our love for pigeons of course.

Here are some piccies from a wonderful trip to Birmingham:

We took questions from the CBBC presenters Lauren and Karim in a segment they called ‘Frequently and Infrequently Asked Questions:

And the infrequently asked questions did not let us down:

Here’s the moment Lauren reveals she once swallowed pigeon poo:

Then on to the main event: 

Sheena illustrated live as the children created new pigeon characters and helped us write a brand new Dave Pigeon story complete with a treetop bakery, rabid dog, jammy biscuits and a rocket to Mars.

Thank you to all the brilliant and imaginative children who came along to make characters and stories with us and everyone at CBBC and the Library of Birmingham for being so wonderful.

Hurrah for Team Awesome!

Such a lovely review of Dave Pigeon from Damyanti and brilliant, bird feeder designer daughter Freya here.